Philip Shultz b. 1741 USA d. 5 Apr 1816 Pennsylvania, USA

1741 - 1816 (75 years)

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Name Philip Shultz [1, 2, 3, 4]

Born 1741 USA [2]

Gender Male

Residence 1800 Greenwood, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA [3]

Residence 1810 Greenwood, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA [1]

Died 5 Apr 1816 Pennsylvania, USA [2]

Cemetery transcription

Burial 8 Apr 1816 Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA [2]

Religious Church: Rohrsburg Cemetery [2]

Name Philip Shults [3]

Name Philip Shultz [2]

Name Philip Shultz Sr [2]

Reference Number 6024

Residence 1820 Derry, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States [4]

Buried Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA [2]

Rohrsburg Cemetery

Siblings 9 Siblings

	1. Elizabeth Shultz, b. Aft 1725
	2. Georg Heinrich Shultz, b. 6 Mar 1727, Thaleishweiler-Froeschen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
+	3. Johann Peter Shultz, b. 24 Jun 1729, Thaleishweiler-Froeschen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany , d. Between 1790 and 1791, Sussex, New Jersey, USA (Age 60 years) ▻ Mary Weller
	4. Anna Barbara Shultz, b. 7 Jan 1732, Thaleishweiler-Froeschen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
	5. Johann Georg Shultz, b. 7 Jun 1734, Thaleishweiler-Froeschen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany , d. 16 May 1737, Thaleishweiler-Froeschen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Age 2 years)
	6. Johann Reinhardt Shultz, b. 7 Jun 1734, Thaleishweiler-Froeschen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany , d. 22 Feb 1736, Thaleishweiler-Froeschen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Age 1 years)
	7. Sarah Shultz, b. Aft 1734
	8. Anna Magdalena {Lany} Shultz, b. 11 Jan 1737, Thaleishweiler-Froeschen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
+	9. Philip Shultz, b. 1741, USA , d. 5 Apr 1816, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 75 years) ▻ Anna Barbara Unknown
	10. Eve Shultz, b. 1 Jan 1751, USA

Person ID I6024 FelsingFam

Last Modified 16 Feb 2024

Father	Johann Velten {Valentine} Shultz, b. Abt 1706, Germany , d. 1786, Greenwich, Warren, New Jersey, USA (Age ~ 80 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Anna Kunigunde Unknown, b. Abt 1706
Relationship	natural
Married	Germany [5, 6]
Family ID	F1639	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Anna Barbara Unknown, b. 1744, d. 20 Sep 1828, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 84 years)

Children

	1. Elizabeth Shultz, b. 1765, d. 1853 (Age 88 years) [natural]
	2. Sarah Shultz, b. 1765, d. 1847 (Age 82 years) [natural]
+	3. Jacob Shultz, b. 1765, d. 1804, Montour, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 39 years) [natural]
+	4. Daniel Shultz, b. 2 Feb 1769, New Jersey, USA , d. 30 Apr 1852, Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 83 years) [natural]
	5. Katterean Shultz, b. 1774 [natural]
+	6. Mary Shultz, b. 28 Dec 1778, New Jersey, USA , d. 6 Sep 1871 (Age 92 years) [natural]
+	7. Samuel Shultz, b. 5 Nov 1781, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 24 Feb 1862, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years) [natural]
	8. Peter Shultz, b. 1785 [natural]
	9. John Shultz, b. 1786 [natural]
	10. Joseph Shultz, b. 1790 [natural]
	11. Nancy Shultz, b. 1792 [natural]
	12. Ann Shultz, b. 1794 [natural]
	13. Margret Shultz, b. 1796, d. 1863 (Age 67 years) [natural]

Last Modified 16 Feb 2024

Family ID F1640 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

Died - 5 Apr 1816 - Pennsylvania, USA

Burial - 8 Apr 1816 - Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA

Buried - - Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Photos » Slide Show		Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 207
		PennsylvaniaChurchandTownRecords1708-1985 Date:11/24/2013 7:17:35 PM
		1810 United States Federal Census Year: 1810; Census Place: Greenwood, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: 53; Page: 174; Image: 00053; Family History Library Film: 0193679
		Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863
		1820 United States Federal Census 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Derry, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Page: 20; NARA Roll: M33_101; Image: 31
		shultz phillip stone Date:4/18/2009 1:21:30 PM

Notes

BIRTH:
Abt 1741 per gravestone inscription. Probably in Greenwich, Warren, New Jersey where his father lived.

PARENTS:
Johann Velten and Anna Kunigunde Shultz.

MARRIAGE:
By 1765 to Anna Barbara Unknown. Based on birth of first known child. (The Barbara Klein name in some online trees comes from a different Philip Schultz who married Barbara Klein 3/16/1806 in New Hanover, Montgomery County, Pa.)

CENSUS RECORDS:
1800. Pennsylvania Septennial Census shows the name of Philip Shultz in Greenwood, Northumberland, Pennsylvania. It also shows an entry for his brother Daniel. No other pertinent information is included.

LOCATION: left New Jersey for Pennsylvania between 1778 and 1781 based on births of children. In Greenwood by 1800 based on Census.

DEATH:
5 Apr 1816. Per gravestone inscription.

BURIAL:
Rohrsburg Cemetery, Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania. Inscription reads “Philip Shultz died 5 Apr 1816 Aged 75 years.

PROBATE RECORDS:
From Columbia County, Pennsylvania Will Book #1 Pages 47, 48 & 49

Phillip Shults will
No. 5 will

I, Phillip Shults of the Township of Greenwood in the county of Northumberland in the State of Pennsylvania being sick and weak of body but of sound mine and memory and calling to mind the certainty of death and uncertainty of life do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say firstly and principally I commit my soul into the hand of almighty god who gave it and my body to be buried in a decent and becoming manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named and secondly I order all my just debts for funeral expenses to be paid and discharged by my Executors as soon as may be out of my Estate items. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Barbary my Plantation whereon I now dwell farming fifty one acres with the appurtenances hereunto belonging to her use and benefit together with all household & kitchen furniture with two cows & seven sheep and give all the residue of moneys that may be left after my debts are paid aforesaid. All of which I give and bequeath to her for her use and benefit to have & to hold during her natural life and no longer. From and after which time & as soon as is convenient my will further is that my plantation be sold either at public or private sale for the best price that can be conveniently had for it. I hereby impower my executors hereafter named to make as good a title or titles to the purchaser or purchasers as I myself might or could have done were I personally present. And I further order that all of my personal property that my wife may be possessed of at the time of her decease by sold at either public or private sale and the moyney arising therefrom together with the money arising on the sail of my plantation, I give and devise to my twelve children namely, Daniel, Elisabeth, Katterean, Ann, Sarah, Mary, Samuel, John, Peter, Margret, Nancy & Joseph to be equally divided amongst them share and share alike and to be paid to them as soon as the money can be collected by my executors and lastly, I constitute and appoint my son Daniel Shults and my trusty friend William Mather to be my whole and sole Executor to this my list will and testament disannulling and making void all other wills or testaments by me heretofor made declaring this and no other to be my last will and testament in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the eleventh day of March in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. (signature Phillip Shults seal) signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Phillip Shults to be his last will and testament in the presents of us Henry Harris John Miner Homer Mendenhall

No 5 will
I Philip Shults of the township of Greenwood County of Northumberland, State of Pennsylvania do hereby make and publish this codicil to be added to my last will and testament in manner following to wit I give and bequeath to my son Daniel Shults all my right title claim & interest to and in a certain plantation in the State of New Jersey Sussex County Grenage Township amounting to an undivided right bequeathed to me by my father Valluntine Shults becoming payable at the decease of my sister Leah Shults & it is my will that this my present codicil be annexed to and made a part of my last will and testament aforesaid in witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirteen(signature Philip Shults Seal) Signed, Sealed, Published, Pronounced and declared by the said Philip Shults to be his last will and testament in the presence of us Henry Harris, John Miner

No 5 will
I Philip Shults of the Township of Greenwood County of Columbia State of Pennsylvania do make and publish this codicil to my last will and testament in manner following that is to say I have sold five acres of land off the north west corner of my place to my son Peter and I have received payment in full for the same and lastly it is my desire that this my present codicil be annexed and made a part of my last will and testament to all intents and purposes. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal this 12th day of February in the year of our Lord ( )(signature Philip Shults seal) Signed sealed published & declared by the above named Philip Shults as a codicil to be annexed to his last will and testament in the presence of us Henry Harris John Miner.

Be it remembered that on the 25th day of April 1816 personally appeared before me Josia McClure Register for said County Henry Harris & John Miner and being sworn according to law did depose and say that they were personally present & did see Phillip Shults the within testator sign seal publish & declare the same as and for his last will and testament & likewise the codicil thereto following as also his last will and testament and at the time of ( ) Testator was of sound mind & ( ) memory & understanding and that they witnessed the same in the presence and at the request of the said testator and in the presence of one another and that their names Henry Harris & John Miner subscribed thereto as witnesses are their own hand writing and further Deponent saith not. Henry Harris, John Miner sworn & subscribed before me Josiah McClure Register date above.
Be it remembered that on the 25th day of April AD 1816 before me Josiah McClure Regr for said county was proved and approved the Last will and Testament of Philip Shults of Greenwood Township deceased of which the preceding is a true copy and that Letters Testamentary in due and common form of law were granted unto Daniel Shults and William Mather Executors therein named.
Witness my hand the day aforesaid (signature Josiah McClure) Regr

CHILDREN:
Jacob b. 1765 d. 1804 Montour, Pennsylvania
Daniel b. 2 Mar 1769 m. Elizabeth White d. 30 Apr 1852 Columbia, Pennsylvania
Mary b. 20 Dec 1778 d. 39 Apr 1852 Columbia, Pennsylvania
Samuel b. 5 Nov 1781 m. Mary Norbury d. 24 feb 1862 Columbia, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth
Katterean
Ann
Sarah
John
Margret
Nancy
Joseph
Peter

Sources

[S561] 1810 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1810; Census Place: Greenwood, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: 53; Page: 174; Image: 00053; Family History Library Film: 0193679.
Record for Philip Shutts
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7613&h=491446&indiv=try

1810 United States Federal Census
Year: 1810; Census Place: Greenwood, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: 53; Page: 174; Image: 00053; Family History Library Film: 0193679

[S346] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Database online.
Record for Philip Shultz Sr

	Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 207
	PennsylvaniaChurchandTownRecords1708-1985 Date:11/24/2013 7:17:35 PM

[S567] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
Record for Philip Shults
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=PASeptennialCensus&h=584941&indiv=try

Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863
[S568] 1820 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Derry, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Page: 20; NARA Roll: M33_101; Image: 31.
Record for Philip Shultz
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7734&h=859697&indiv=try

1820 United States Federal Census
1820 U S Census; Census Place: Derry, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Page: 20; NARA Roll: M33_101; Image: 31
[S562] Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America Vol II, Annette Kunselman Burgert, (Name: Pennsylvania German Society; Location: Birdsboro, Pennsylvania; Date: 1985;), p.289-Information from the Thaleishweiler Lutheran Kirchenbuch (Church Book)--It is noted in the church book that the immigrant left for America, although no date is entered for this information.
[S566] Emigrants from the Palatinate to the American COlonies in the 18th Century, Dr Friedrich Krebs, edity by Milton Rubincam, (Name: Pennsylvania German Society; Location: Norristown, Pennsylvania; Date: 1953;), P29 of Vol. 1.